Take risks. Ask big questions. Don’t be afraid to make mistakes; if you don’t make mistakes, you’re not reaching far enough.

Lew was such a straightforward and honest guy. The employees loved him.

Why are we here? I think many people assume, wrongly, that a company exists solely to make money. Money is an important part of a company’s existence, if the company is any good. But a...

I could disagree with Lew but I never started a public campaign against him, … He was such a decent person.

Marketing is too important to be left to the marketing department.

A company has a greater responsibility than making money for its stockholders. We have a responsibility to our employees to recognize their dignity as human beings.

I think that we must find some way to get more common sense, more rationality, in our decisions and less emotion.

I have observed that money left without special guidance is sometimes used well and sometimes not.

The most important question we have to deal with is a combination of population control and the control of our environment – how to utilize the world in as effective a way as we can...

Bill Hewlett and I were brought up in the Depression. We weren’t interested in the idea of making any money. Our idea was if you couldn’t find a job, you’d make one for yourself.

You appear to have a good project… we wish you well in this endeavor.

To remain static is to lose ground.

I am perfectly aware that HP has never guaranteed absolute tenure status to its employees; but I also know that Bill and Dave never developed a premeditated business strategy that treated HP employees as expendable,